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The pilot of a small airplane was not injured when his aircraft had a rough landing at Greenville Downtown Airport.

The Greenville Fire Department responded to the airport about 1:15 p.m. Sunday in response to a report that a plane was down, Battalion Chief Richard Mullinax said. When firefighters arrived, they found the plane on its nose in the grassy area of the runway, he said.

"He was coming in for a landing," Wright said. "It looked like the wind may have lifted his rear up.

"We found the nose at the ground and the plane standing almost straight up with the nose down."

There was small fuel leak in one of the wings, Mullinax said. Responders pulled the rear end down and made the plane level to the ground, which stopped the leak, he said.

The airport runway was shut down to clear the scene. Firefighters were on the scene for about 30 minutes, Mullinax said.